Professor of English
  Elizabethtown College
  Elizabethtown PA 17022

Hello, welcome to my homepage. This page provides a base page with links to pages that provide information on  my Professional activities, personal data, contact data, and pages for specific areas in which I teach. Courses pages typically will include syllabi and links to related internet sites. Some syllabi may  not be keyed to current dates, and are primarily for general informational purposes. In fact during any semester a syllabus may be revised, so current students will need to refer to the most current syllabus handed out in class for a complete version. Still, anyone can get a clear idea of what is covered in a course from the syllabi you will find here, and a student who has misplaced his or her syllabus can probably get an idea of what will be covered in the next class. The same basic idea is true for handouts: for the most recent version, contact me, but if you have misplaced one, the version here should be helpful until you can get the most recent version.  I have also included here a link to an exceptionally good site created by John Lyle, which is useful for all students of literature . I have also included general literature sources

John Lye's course and source page serves primarily as a portal to Lye's sites for the courses that he teaches, although it also includes an exceptionally broad and helpfully organized collection of links to literary resources throughout the Internet.  One site for an introductory literature course includes Lye's guide to literary analysis, which provides concise, straightforward outlines of the basic formal and social features of poetry and fiction -- elements such as imagery, character, and ideology -- and links to definitions of terms as they occur in main text of the site.  Truly interesting and unique are the many information remarks and questions Lye posts on his course pages, particularly the "handouts" for modern fiction.  Useful, well conceived, and well presented digest of main points and questions for consideration  about more specific topics such as the "death of the author" and post colonial theory, these are pedagogic treasures. 
--edited excerpt from a review by R.J. Cirasa, Kean Universtiy